TY - CHAP
T1 - Psychological capital and occupational stress in emergency services teams
T2 - empowering effects of servant leadership and workgroup emotional climate
AU - Krzeminska, Anna
AU - Lim, Joel
AU - Härtel, Charmine E J
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Occupational stress occurs in a variety of forms, types, and situations. Arguably, a certain level of stress can encourage productivity, ingenuity, and satisfaction. As occupational stress escalates, however, people’s capacity to deal with it diminishes, eventually compromising work performance and provoking people to express negative emotions. These negative aspects of stress are buffered to a certain extent by individual differences such as personality as well as external contextual factors such as the working environment. This chapter reports a study applying an affective events theory (AET) as a framework to investigate perceived stress in response to negative events in emergency services’ workplaces and the potential buffering effects of servant leadership, affective team climate, and psychological capital. An experience sampling methodology (ESM) was used to record daily cases of self-reported negative events experienced by participants over the three week data-collection period. A structured survey questionnaire independent of the ESM was also used to collect data from 44 emergency service operation members. The findings indicate that servant leadership behavior, affective team climate, and individual psychological capital all are significantly related to reduced perceived occupational stress in emergency service team members.
AB - Occupational stress occurs in a variety of forms, types, and situations. Arguably, a certain level of stress can encourage productivity, ingenuity, and satisfaction. As occupational stress escalates, however, people’s capacity to deal with it diminishes, eventually compromising work performance and provoking people to express negative emotions. These negative aspects of stress are buffered to a certain extent by individual differences such as personality as well as external contextual factors such as the working environment. This chapter reports a study applying an affective events theory (AET) as a framework to investigate perceived stress in response to negative events in emergency services’ workplaces and the potential buffering effects of servant leadership, affective team climate, and psychological capital. An experience sampling methodology (ESM) was used to record daily cases of self-reported negative events experienced by participants over the three week data-collection period. A structured survey questionnaire independent of the ESM was also used to collect data from 44 emergency service operation members. The findings indicate that servant leadership behavior, affective team climate, and individual psychological capital all are significantly related to reduced perceived occupational stress in emergency service team members.
KW - Servant leadership
KW - affective team climate
KW - psychological capital
KW - occupational stress
KW - experience sampling methodology
KW - emergency services teams
KW - workgroup emotional climate
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066976599&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1746-979120180000014017
DO - 10.1108/S1746-979120180000014017
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781787548459
T3 - Research on Emotion in Organizations
SP - 189
EP - 215
BT - Individual, relational, and contextual dynamics of emotions
A2 - Petitta, Laura
A2 - Härtel, Charmine E. J.
A2 - Ashkanasy, Neal M.
A2 - Zerbe, Wilfred
PB - Emerald Group Publishing
CY - Bingley, UK
ER -